Examples of use of RS Ophiuchi
1. Barry is a co–author on another study on RS Ophiuchi that will appear in an upcoming edition of Astrophysical Journal.
2. The two–star system, called RS Ophiuchi, is known as a recurrent nova because five similar eruptions have been detected before.
3. The red giant and white dwarf stars making up RS Ophiuchi are separated by about 1.5 astronomical units, or one and a half times the distance the Earth is from the sun.
4. The white dwarf in RS Ophiuchi is near this critical limit now, but it will still probably need hundreds of thousands of years to accumulate the final bit of mass, scientists say.
5. This extraordinary artist‘s impression captures the fall out from the RS Ophiuchi, a double star 5,000 light years from earth which exploded, spreading a nuclear wave at almost four million miles per hour.